HTC Touch Diamond First impressions

Mobile-review have posted their first impressions of the new HTC Diamond Touch. Here is the final impression.

Impressions
The Touch Diamond gets the company as close to the concept of a mass-market Windows Mobile powered device as they have never been before. And if the Diamond will turn out to be a flop for some strange reasons, the next generation model, its follow-up, will be popular for sure.

The truth is, there aren’t that many factors that may hinder the Touch Diamond’s success. Among them are a quite hefty price tag and HTC being a relatively unknown brand (obviously the average user will never put it in one league with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung). As for the rest, the Diamond is free of almost all constraints and limitations that hampered its predecessors (and defined Windows Mobile a platform for mobile professionals alone).

Already today, judging by the Diamond’s engineering samples, it’s safe to say that HTC has come up with a decent offering – probably, it’s a mixed bag design-wise, but it represents a logical leap forward in all other departments, aimed to hit the mass-market hard and appeal the users outside the circle of Windows Mobile specialists. Honestly speaking, we could hardly imagine the Touch Diamond was a communicator during our quality time with it. “A phone with beefed up functionality” would be a more fitting definition (or, as many users normally call it, a “smartphone”)

We will have a detailed review of the HTC Touch Diamond up in a few weeks. Don’t forget to check back for more!